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Industrial Location Economics »

Authors: Philip McCann
ISBN-13: 9781840646726, ISBN-10: 1840646721
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Elgar, Edward Publishing, Inc.
Date Published: October 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	List of figures
	List of tables
	List of contributors
	Introduction
Pt. I	Analytical Approaches to Industrial Location
1	Classical and neoclassical location-production models	3
2	The location of economic activity: central place theory and the wider urban system	32
3	Geographical grids in 'new economic geography' models	83
4	Firm migration	110
Pt. II	Cities and Industrial Clusters
5	Diversity and specialization in cities: why, where and when does it matter?	151
6	Global cities, internationalization and urban systems	187
7	Clusters and networks: institutional settings and strategic perspectives	207
8	Theory, methods and a cross-metropolitan comparison of business clustering	222
Pt. III	Multinational Firms and Location Behaviour
9	The location decision of the multinational enterprise	263
10	The technological relationships between indigenous firms and foreign-owned MNCs in the European regions	286
11	The relationship between the spatial and hierarchical organization of multiplant firms: observations from the global semiconductor industry	319
	Index	365